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You are right.
In Downtown Atlanta it is illegal to ask for money or valuables in a "tourist triangle" that includes most downtown hotels and tourist sites.
Under the ordinance, panhandlers would get a warning on the first offense and referred to social services on the second offense. Downtown panhandlers could get a short jail term if they get three citations in one year.
The ordinance also outlines tougher rules for panhandlers citywide, making it a crime to ask for money at night or near train stations or ATM's.
thanks for the info, qtee!
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if its a bug, I've got half of it.
I've been honking like a goose for three days and have just ONE side of my nose running.. this stiiiiinks.
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Well, you do have to admit that with this particular body part, you do tend to intentionally "bash" it into things.
OK point taken. lolol
wait, do I need a wee bitty helmet?
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How is telling adults they can't pierce their toots any different from telling adults they have to wear helmets and seatbelts? When the toot gets infected and rots off, we'll be having to foot the medical bills for curing it and reconstructing it.
You can't get mad about them telling us some things we can/can't do, but not others.
Well, it's about having the freedom to do with my body what I want to, in a sterile environment. With proper care, they won't fall off. They will only get infected if you dont take care of it.
The helmets and seatbelts are for accidents. You dont willingly go bash your head into a wall or drive your car off a cliff.
(if you do or feel the need to... please seek medical attention.)
I don't think the two can be compared.
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please forgive me for not being knowledgable of it...
but is it covered under the new pan-handling law?
I didn't get the full specs on it.
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Well, I don't feel so badly now...I was only 3 at the time that movie was released!
LOL I hadn't even been born yet!
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lol it's ok.
obscure sci-fi movie reference
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the ever optimist in me wants to believe that the people who are buying LV purses and lobster dinners and steaks are treating themselves. If I hadn't eaten in 4 days, I'd want a steak dinner too!
I know that if I just suffered my life being completely distroyed to an extent, I'd want a little "me" gift. I hope that's what these people are doing. That's the naievety {sic} in me.
The other part knows that some are just going to blow it and wonder what to do next.
I did hear on the news last night (in reference to someone buying expensive purses) that "they" (i'm not sure who) was going to inforce some fraudulent charge dealie if "they" found out people were buying weird stuff and not necessities.
I personally don't know why they didn't do some kind of WIC dealie instead of just giving them cash.
I dont give cash to homeless downtown, I give them food or bottles of water, etc.
blahblahrambly blah.
lol
sorry.
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lmao
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Lemme know when and where for the baby shower.
Babies must have a BLANKET!!! (or a hat. lol))
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poor thing!!
I hope the meds make her feel better!
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the law against oral was admended back in 1999 or 1998 to make it so impossible to prosecute, no one bothers anymore... it was also regarding the entire definition of 'sodomy."
So you dont' have to worry about getting arrested unless its involving a free will or violence issue.
fyi: the reason I know this? I lived with some alternative livestyle boys - we threw a party for all of us not being felons anymore
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Ok , here I go... 1. Who the heck do they think they are dealing with here? We women aren't going to stand around and let men decide what we are going to do with ourselves. Heck, if a man pierces his wang, shouldn't that be illegal too? 2. What piercing/tattoo parlor is going to turn in a woman to the police who's pierced her toot? 3. What are they going to do to find these women that will pierce their toot just b/c some man told her not to? I can see it now, "Excuse me ma'am, can you drop your drawers for me please I need to check for evidence?" HELLO! Not going to happen! I think this is hilarious-just another bad example to show that Satan controls our government. I bet that Rep is full of shiznit anyway-his wife, lover, daughter and granny probably all have one and he's probably thinking of getting his done. I am laughing so hard about this. C'mon people, give it up, this is America, if you want to tell your women what to do-I can tell you where to go live. NOT HERE! How come rapist serve less time in prison?
lolol we were trying to figure out how they would figure out if you were peirced or not.. the original legislation was going to prosecute the piercers... I don't know HOW they were going to find out how, but if they DID.. oh boy, were you in trouble.
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um... er.. uh... ::whistles::
I honestly couldn't find anything that was regarding it. I had that one filed away for reference because of the detail. lol
I was involved with the initial "keep your laws off my bits" email/letter-ing back in March of last year to get it amended, I can proudly say. I sent letters to every freaking body. ::brags like a crazy woman::
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This was snuck in under a bill regarding female mutilation in March of 2004. Rep. Bill Heath was initially told by a very uneducated source that female babies genitals were being pierced, which was an untruth. And instead of looking further into it, he lumped it all into the same catagory and decided that it was all oogy and shouldn't be practiced at all.
The mention of males was because it was regarding the bigger issue, of female mutilation, practiced by many religions in other countries.
: the Bill was titled SB 418. or the FGM (female genital mutilation)
The entire bill needed to be repassed due to the amendment into the senate and didn't happen. (as of August 21st,2005.)
For now, we're still ok to pierce bits of our bodies without prosecution.
If you are interested in more information regarding this, see this site:
http://www.sexherald.com/sexual-investigat...e_names_ar.html
*****but beware, the site is NOT WORK SAFE nor should be viewed by individuals that you would think innappropriate to do so.
Please keep letters to Bill Heath and your local representatives coming because this could pop up at any minute and throw another wrench in the engine.
Thanks.
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hot damn! congrats!!
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I like this one, it is a real tragedy that tugs at my heart.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39680
roflmao!!
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Thanks to all of you who cast your votes, suggested names and sent congrat messages. After much debate amongst the family we ended up agreeing on a name that was not in the poll.
We The name came to us after we picked him up from the vet today. After being cleaned up the name fits him. We decided to name him Mr. Bojangles. We can call him Bo for short. He gets so excited he wiggles and dances. So the name fits him.
Here are a few lyrics from the song:
(okay this is sappy but it fits)!
Mr. Bojangles
I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
(he dances)
In worn out shoes,
(his feet were filthy and matted)
With silver hair, a ragged shirt, and baggy pants
(he is white and his fur was raggy)
The old soft shoe.
He jumped so high, jumped so high
Then he'd lightly touch down.
(he is small so he is light)
I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was down and out.
(he was in a cage when New Orleans was big news and it made me sad to see him that way)
He looked to me to be the eyes of age as he spoke right out
(he looked to me to rescue him and his movements spoke to me)
He talked of life, talked of life, he laughed, slapped his leg a step
( he has so much life left to live)
Here is our clean boy! He looks soooo much better.
awesome!! he's a cutie pie!!
it's perfect!!
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actually according to the nightly news, it was some worker who plugged the wrong thing into the wrong place.
a big fat Homer Simpson "do'h" - and nothing more.
updated here.
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Information and stories from Robert LeBlanc as passed on to me by a friend.
Jeff Rau, a family and now personal friend to whom I will forever be linked, and I were volunteering with a boat and pulling people out of the water on Wednesday. I have a first-hand experience of what we encountered. In my opinion, everything that is going on in the media is a complete bastardization of what is really happening. The result is that good people are dying and losing family members. I have my own set of opinions about welfare and people working to improve thier own lot instead of looking for handouts, but what is occurring now is well beyond those borders. These people need help and need to get out. We can sort out all of the social and political issues later, but human beings with any sense of compassion would agree that the travesty that is going on here in New Orleans needs to end and people's lives need to be saved and families need to be put back together. Now.
I will tell you that I would probably disagree with most of the people that still need to be saved on political, social, and cultural values. However, it must be noted that these people love thier friends and families like I do, desire to live like I do, and care for their respective communities (I was even amazed at the site of seemingly young and poor black people caring for sickly and seemingly well-to-do white people and tourists still needing evacuation from New Orleans' downtown area) the same way I care for mine.
Eight people in particular who stood out during our rescue and whose stories deserve to be told:
1.) We were in motor boats all day ferrying people back and forth approximately a mile and a half each way (from Carrolton down Airline Hwy to the Causeway overpass). Early in the day, we witnessed a black man in a boat with no motor paddling with a piece of lumber. He rescued people in the boat and paddled them to safety (a mile and a half). He then, amidst all of the boats with motors, turned around and paddled back out across the mile and a half stretch to do his part in getting more people out. He refused to give up or occupy any of the motored boat resources because he did not want to slow us down in our efforts. I saw him at about 5:00 p.m., paddling away from the rescue point back out into the neighborhoods with about a half mile until he got to the neighborhood, just two hours before nightfall. I am sure that his trip took at least an hour and a half each trip, and he was going back to get more people knowing that he'd run out of daylight. He did all of this wit! h a t!
wo-by-four.
2.) One of the groups that we rescued were 50 people standing on the bridge that crosses over Airline Hwy just before getting to Carrolton Ave going toward downtown. Most of these people had been there, with no food, water, or anyplace to go since Monday morning (we got to them Wed afternoon) and surrounded by 10 feet of water all around them. There was one guy who had been there since the beginning, organizing people and helping more people to get to the bridge safely as more water rose on Wednesday morning. He did not leave the bridge until everyone got off safely, even deferring to people who had gotten to the bridge Wed a.m. and, although inconvenienced by loss of power and weather damage, did have the luxury of some food and some water as late as Tuesday evening. This guy waited on the bridge until dusk, and was one of the last boats out that night. He could have easily not made it out that night and been stranded on the bridge alone.
3.) The third story may be the most compelling. I will not mince words. This was in a really rough neighborhood and we came across five seemingly unsavory characters. One had scars from what seemed to be gunshot wounds. We found these guys at a two-story recreational complex, one of the only two-story buildings in the neighborhood. They broke into the center and tried to rustle as many people as possible from the neighborhood into the center. These guys stayed outside in the center all day, getting everyone out of the rec center onto boats. We approached them at approximately 6:30 p.m., obviously one of the last trips of the day, and they sent us further into the neighborhood to get more people out of homes and off rooftops instead of getting on themselves. This at the risk of their not getting out and having to stay in the water for an undetermined (you have to understand the uncertainly that all of the people in these accounts faced without having any info on the resc! ue ef!
forts, how far or deep the flooding was, or where to go if they want to swim or walk out) amount of time. These five guys were on the last boat out of the neighborhood at sundown. They were incredibly grateful, mentioned numerous times 'God is going to bless y'all for this'. When we got them to the dock, they offered us an Allen Iverson jersey off of one of their backs as a gesture of gratitude, which was literally probably the most valuable possession among them all. Obviously, we declined, but I remain tremendously impacted by this gesture.
I don't know what to do with all of this, but I think we need to get this story out. Some of what is being portrayed among the media is happening and is terrible, but it is among a very small group of people, not the majority. They make it seem like New Orleans has somehow taken the atmosphere of the mobs in Mogadishu portrayed in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down," which is making volunteers (including us) more hesitant and rescue attempts more difficult. As a result, people are dying. My family has been volunteering at the shelters here in Houma and can count on one hand the number of people among thousands who have not said "Thank You." or "God Bless You." Their lives shattered and families torn apart, gracious just to have us serve them beans and rice.
If anything, these eight people's stories deserve to be told, so that people across the world will know what they really did in the midst of this devastation. So that it will not be assumed that they were looting hospitals, they were shooting at helicopters. It must be known that they, like many other people that we encountered, sacrificed themselves during all of this to help other people in more dire straits than their own.
It is also important to know that this account is coming from someone who is politically conservative, believes in capitalism and free enterprise, and is traditionally against many of the opinions and stances of activists like Michael Moore and other liberals on most of the hot-topic political issues of the day. Believe me, I am not the political activist. This transcends politics. This is about humanity and helping mankind. We need to get these people out. Save their lives. We can sort out all of the political and social issues later. People need to know the truth of what is going on at the ground level so that they know that New Orleans and the people stranded there are, despite being panicked and desperate, gracious people and they deserve the chance to live. They need all of our help, as well.
This is an accurate account of things. Jeffery Rau would probably tell the same exact stories.
Regards,
Robert LeBlanc
for more amazing photos and accounts of what is going on, see
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I am tellin ya it was me stop blamin' the govt' as we all know they do not make mistakes nobody in government does...
lol ok..
was it you who did the NY blackout too?
You're a busy girl!
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during the day its kids' shows.
the evening its usually a bit of the news and then the simpsons.
at night its whatevers' on.. but mostly just the computer.